Test Validation Specialist; Civil Service

Test Validation Specialist (Civil Service)
- City of Dallas

Provides advance expertise in personnel testing to include development, validation, maintenance, administration, and the use of personnel selection instruments to ensure promotion and hiring are completed in accordance with merit principles, legal statutes, and psychometric guidelines.

The Recruitment and Testing Validation Specialist provides advanced expertise in personnel recruitment & testing to include development, validation, maintenance, administration, and the use of personnel selection instruments to ensure promotion and hiring are completed in accordance with merit principles, legal statutes, and psychometric guidelines. This position will play a pivotal role in driving the organization's talent management initiatives, specifically through organizational design and effectiveness.

Provide strategic consulting services to management/leadership throughout the organization; consultant activities include assessment, planned interventions, and measurement of outcomes.

• Work with department leadership to promote and drive positive organizational effectiveness and culture-change initiatives with data driven metrics across programming.
• Develop, oversee, and promote employee engagement, equity, diversity and inclusion through mentoring, education, and leadership development.
• Provide strategic consulting, leadership, and guidance in the areas of organizational effectiveness and design.
• Execute and analyze data from entry-level and promotional exams and support the action planning process to deliver desired outcomes.
• Acts as an internal consultant to key stakeholders to plan, manage, and execute organization-wide and department level organizational development (OD) initiatives to increase organizational effectiveness.
• Conducts job analyses including background research, site observations, interviews, focus groups, questionnaire development and administration; assists in planning studies and analyzing procedural barriers to provide effective and efficient program delivery.
• Develops personnel selection instruments and rating systems used to assess job competency requirements for employment hiring and promotions.
• Advises front-line and mid-level executives on complicated and complex organizational development issues, addressing root cause issues and creating sustainable results.
• Conducts statistical analyses to determine psychometric properties regarding test validity, reliability, adverse impact, and text questions; evaluates assessment tools for technical soundness and legal defensibility.
• Designs and delivers training to internal and external customers; continuously evaluates ongoing processes and procedures to ensure compliance with federal and legal guidelines.
• Organizes and administers promotional examinations at assessment centers.
• Performs data analyses; administers surveys, workforce planning, job analysis, test development, exam passing score, adverse impact, and other psychometric properties of exams.
• Maintains working relationships with other city internal departments to develop and validate selection tools; serves as a liaison between testing consultants and city personnel to facilitate the development and administration of selection instruments.
• Performs any and all other work as needed or assigned.

• Thorough knowledge of employment laws and regulations governing the employment assessment and selection process.
• Knowledge of City policies, procedures, protocols, and standards.
• Knowledge of Civil Service guidelines that govern the hiring and testing process for City positions.
• Knowledge of employment test and assessment design and development methods and practices.
• Knowledge of federal and state laws and City personnel regulations, policies, and practices including principles of management and supervision.
• Ability to oversee and assists other Testing personnel to perform effective and professional work.
• Ability to administer and coordinate extensive testing protocols for multiple departments.
• Ability to apply scientific research methodology and perform statistical data analysis.
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